Caroline Paulus

Caroline Paulus (born March 1, 1959) is a French actress, fashion model and singer, better known by her stage name - Bambou. She was married to the French singer Serge Gainsbourg from 1981 until his death in 1991. Their son Lucien 'Lulu' Gainsbourg was born in 1986.

Biography

Paulus met Gainsbourg in 1980 at L'Elysée Montmartre in Paris and was the subject of his photobook Bambou et les poupées.

Paulus started her career in 1979 with the film called Enfant secret, L. Other films and TV series that she appeared in were L'Homme sandwich, La Fin de la nuit, and 74 km avec elle.

Plot: Lucien Ginsburg, a rebellious French Jewish boy with a grotesque imagination, hates playing the piano like his father, a bar professional, and manages to be admitted to Montmartre Academy as painter, where he befriends an SS officer who helps him survive he occupation. After the war, he chooses to become a performing artist and adopts the stage name Serge Gainsbourg. His unorthodox songs bring him success, even his parents's approval, and lots of lovers, yet his marriages are all utter failures.

France Gall: Everyone loves the songs my father chooses for me.::Serge Gainsbourg: Don't you want to piss your father off once in a while?::France Gall: Why?::Serge Gainsbourg: A guy once told me, if the parents like what you do, then it's shit.::[pause]::Serge Gainsbourg: You want me to write you a dirty song?

Serge Gainsbourg: You match my aesthetic criteria. You're pure beauty and you're also the tragic figure of despair.::[pause]::Serge Gainsbourg: Do you understand what I'm saying?::Bambou: You want to screw me?::Serge Gainsbourg: Maybe. I'm just saying it more poetically.

Lucien Ginsburg: When I go out, it's to meet up with women. How else do think I was able to draw cunt hair?

[last lines]::Serge Gainsbourg: [looking at his newborn baby] Let's name him after his daddy.::Bambou: The king Serge.::Serge Gainsbourg: Non Lucien the second. Called to take over France like his dad. And Navarre too, don't forget.